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References
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Singapore National Bibliography National Library Board (Singapore) <http://snb.nl.sg/catIndex/> [regularly updated online lists of all books published in Singapore and deposited at the Singapore National Library].
2.
Creating "Greater Malaysia": Decolonization and the Politics of Merger Tan Tai Yong ix+224pp Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) S $34.90.
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Crossroads: A Popular History of Malaysia and Singapore Jim Baker 456pp Marshall Cavendish Editions (Singapore) S $28.
4.
Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Harmony and Conflict Syed Husin Ali xxiv+169pp Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (Petaling Jaya) RM30.
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Failed Nation? Concerns of a Malaysian Nationalist Rustam A. Sani 176pp Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (Petaling Jaya) RM25.
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The Malays Anthony C. Milner 312pp Basil Blackwell (Oxford) £50.
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The Malays: Their Problems & Future revised version Syed Husin Ali xii+236pp The Other Press (Kuala Lumpur) RM35.
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Malaysia at 50: Achievements and Aspirations ed Syed Arabi Idid xxix+374pp Thomson Learning (Singapore) S $57.50
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The Malaysian Indians: History, Problems, and Future Muzafar Desmond Tate 241pp Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (Petaling Jaya) RM40
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"Names in Multilingual-Multicultural Malaysia" Karen Cheng Kow Yip Names: A Journal of Onomastics 56(1) pp47-53.
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Sharing the Nation: Faith, Difference, Power, and the State 50 Years after Merdeka Norani Othman, Mavis C. Puthucheary and Clive S. Kessler xxi+99pp Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (Petaling Jaya) RM20.
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Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore eds Michael D. Barr and Carl A. Trocki xiv+306pp NUS Press (Singapore) S $38.
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Religious Diversity in Singapore ed Lai Ah Eng lix+723pp Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) S $79.90.
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The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli xx+300pp NUS Press (Singapore) S $42.
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Singapore: An Atlas of Perpetual Territorial Transformation Rodolphe De Koninck, Julie Drolet and Marc Girard 95pp NUS Press (Singapore) S $48.
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Singapore Literature in English: An Annotated Bibliography ed Koh Tai Ann 280pp National Library Board and Nanyang Technological University, Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (Singapore).
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Singapore: The Unexpected Nation Edwin Lee xxii+707pp Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) S $49.90.
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Narayanan, Bernice The Cresent. The Star. The Stripes 144pp BN Communications (Kuala Lumpur) RM 120.
19.
Alfian Sa’at. A History of Amnesia revised edition 86pp Ethos Books (Singapore) S $14.90.
20.
Koh Buck Song Heartlands: Home and Nation in the Art of Ong Kim Seng 174pp Ong Kim Seng (Singapore) S $80 [paintings by Ong with text and accompanying poems by Koh].
21.
Lee, Madeleine Synaesthesia 85pp Firstfruits (Singapore) S $17.
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Leo, David Identity 120pp Ethos Books (Singapore) S $17.90.
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Nambiar, Pratap Straight from the Heart 100pp Ethos Books (Singapore) S $19.90.
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Puthucheary, Rosaly Footfalls in the Rain 56pp Select Publishing (Singapore) S $14.95.
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---Mirrored Images 55pp Select Publishing (Singapore) S $14.95 [republication of the poems from her two earlier volumes, Pillow Your Dreams (1978) and The Fragmented Ego (1978)].
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Shiau, Daren V. L. Velouria 63pp Firstfruits (Singapore) S $14.
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Thumboo, Edwin Bring the Sun 78pp Ethos Books (Singapore) S $22.90
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---Still Travelling 104pp Ethos Books (Singapore) S $19.90.
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Toh Hsien Min Means to an End 53pp Landmark Books (Singapore) S $15.
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Wong, Cyril Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light 92pp Firstfruits (Singapore) S $16.
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Gomez, Brian Devil’s Place: A Novel about Terrorism, Prostitution, Politics and Other Funny Stuff 349pp Idle Minds (Malaysia) RM 34.90.
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Kuan Guat Choo Mouse Clutching Winter Melon 246pp Scribers Ideashop (Ipoh) RM 30.
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Lim, Shirley Princess Shawl 115p Maya Press (Petaling Jaya) RM 18.90.
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Narayanan, Saradha The Freedom of Choice vii+263pp Melrose Books (Ely, Cambridgeshire) £13.99.
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Samarasan, Preeta Evening Is the Whole Day 340pp Houghton Mifflin (Boston) US $24.
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Shahriza Hussein Legacy 359pp Editions Didier Millet (Singapore) US $12.50.
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Tei, Chiew-Siah Little Hut of Leaping Fishes 390pp Picador (London) £7.99.
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Thomas, Matthew Tales from the Court and Other Stories 176pp Silverfish Books (Kuala Lumpur) RM 30.
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Yeoh Gim Suan Coffee Break Tales 117pp Pelanduk Publications (Subang Jaya) RM 23.
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Yin Ee Kiong Postcards from a Foreign Country 235pp East West Pub (Kingsford, N.S.W.) RM 30.
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Ho Minfong Journeys: An Anthology of Short Stories 183pp Marshall Cavendish (Singapore) S $12.90.
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Lee, Johann S. Quiet Time 338pp Cannon International (Singapore) S $23.
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Lim, Jeffrey The Coffin that Wouldn’t Bury and Other Stories 104pp Ethos Books (Singapore) S $19.90.
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Ng, Yi-Sheng Eating Air 120pp National Library Board and National Book Development Council of Singapore (Singapore) S $16 [novelisation of the film directed by Kelvin Tong, 1999].
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Pachinko, Poppy The Myopic Years 152pp Candid Creation Publishing (Singapore) S $13.95.
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Toh, James 12 Storeys 112pp National Library Board and National Book Development Council of Singapore (Singapore) S $16 [novelisation of the film directed by Eric Khoo, 1997].
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Yeo, Wei Wei 4:30 National Library Board and National Book Development Council of Singapore (Singapore) S $16 [novelisation of the film directed by Roystan Tan, 2005].
48.
The S.E.A. Write Anthology of ASEAN Short Stories & Poems: The 30th Anniversary eds Nutaya Masavisut et al. Silkroad Agency (Bangkok).
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x 10: 100 Minutes to Change the World: The Winning Plays of the 2007 Kakiscript Competition ed Kathy Rowland 165pp Kakiseni Sdn Bhd (Petaling Jaya) [available online at <www.kakiseni.com/ Kakiscript.pdf>].
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The Malaysian Book of the Undead comp Danny Lim 115pp Matahari (Kuala Lumpur) RM 20.
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Takes eds Jesslyn Chee et al. 129pp Singapore Chinese Girls’ School (Singapore) S $18.
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Bardolatry: A Collection of Poems. 54pp Raffles Junior College, (Singapore).
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Expressions 185 ix+123pp Raffles Institution (Singapore).
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Healing Silence eds Yong Shu Hoong, Wong Fung Sing and Chong Shiow Huey xxi+142pp UniPress (Singapore).
55.
Home and Away 101pp EPB Pan Pacific (Singapore) [an anthology of short stories published as part of Singapore’s National Library Board’s READ! Singapore 2008 programme to cultivate the joy of reading among Singaporeans].
56.
Paranormal Singapore: Tales from the Kopitiam (3 volumes) Andrew Lim 159pp, 158pp, 158pp, Monsoon Books (Singapore) S $11.50 each.
57.
Romance Vol. 1: Collection of Award Winning Love Stories and Poems ed Sharon Tan K. S. 272pp Renaissance Pub (Singapore) S $18.60.
58.
There Are Ghosts Everywhere in Singapore and Malaysia vol. 6 113pp Publishing Consultant (Singapore).
59.
"Human Rights and National Literature: A Comparative Study of the Experiences in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines" Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf Asiatic 2(2) pp74-84 <http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/article/ Nor_Faridah.pdf>.
60.
"The Indigenized West in Asian Multicultures: Literary-Cultural Production in Malaysia and Singapore" C. J. W.-L. Wee Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 10(2) pp188-206.
61.
"Malaysian Writer Fears Asian Talent Eclipsed by China" James Pomfret Reuters News 14 Mar.
62.
The Other Empire: Literary Views of Japan from the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia Ronald D. Klein xii+247pp, Univ of the Philippines Press (Quezon City).
63.
"Interrogating Malaysian Literature in English: Its Glories, Sorrows and Thematic Trends" Mohammad Quayum Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing 30(1) pp149-168.
64.
"Introduction" Overcoming Passion ed Lim 1-12 [see this section].
65.
"Not Muhibbah Cliché" Theresa Manavalan New Sunday Times 14 Sept p16 [on the theatrical production Breaking Ji Po Kasi Pecah, which involves three languages, three directors and three distinct traditions of theatre].
66.
Overcoming Passion: Race, Religion and the Coming Community in Malaysia Cultural Studies ed David Lim xii+184pp Brill (Leiden) 79.
67.
"Beyond Colloquial Prowesses" Gwee Li Sui Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 7(2) <www.qlrs.com/critique.asp?id=621> [review of the Australia-Singapore poetry anthology, Over There eds Kinsella and Pang; see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) p128; see also, "Illuminating Linguistic Neighbourliness," this section].
68.
"Biblio Lists S’pore Lit" Tara Tan Straits Times 6 Nov [review of Singapore Literature in English ed Koh, see this section].
69.
"A Cultured Evolution" Sharon Siddique Straits Times 15 April [review of Wee’s Asian Modern; see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) p130].
70.
"The Culture Buzz?" Liang Dingzi Today 28 Jan p8.
71.
"Dead Poets Society" Mayo Martin Today 19 Feb p30 [on the lack of support for Singapore poets].
72.
"Determinedly Contemporary" Parvathi Nayar Business Times (Singapore) 18 April [on the identity of Singapore’s annual Arts Festival].
73.
"Dollars and Sense" Adeline Chia Straits Times 24 April [on the balance between artistry and commercial considerations in Singapore theatre].
74.
"Dreaming Our Own Dreams: Singapore Monodrama and the Individual Talent" Catherine Diamond New Theatre Quarterly 24(2) pp170-188.
75.
"Family Ties Re-Examined" Tara Tan Straits Times 25 Aug [review of four plays on the family].
76.
"Female Persuasion" Tara Tan Straits Times 14 Aug [review of four plays that centre on feminine concerns].
77.
"Fong Hoe Fang, 53, and Chan Wai Han, 51, Ethos Books" Straits Times 4 Dec [on the founders of Ethos Books, one of the major publishers of local literature].
78.
"Fresh & Wild" Adeline Chia Straits Times 10 July [on the young playwrights in the Singapore Theatre Festival].
79.
"Getting Out of the Singapore Poetry Ghetto" Chris Mooney-Singh World Literature Today 82(1) p80 [on poetry slam in Singapore].
80.
"Getting the Car Back on the Road" Toh Hsien Min Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 7(1) <www.qlrs.com/editorial.asp?id=604> [editorial on the revival of the quarterly, Singapore’s premier online literary journal].
81.
"Ghosts of a Demolished Cityscape: Gothic Experiments in Singaporean Fiction." Tamara S Wagner Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Animé ed Andrew Ng 252pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) pp46-60.
82.
"Give Us a Hand" Tara Tan Straits Times 27 Nov [methods that theatre groups have resorted to during the economic slowdown].
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"Illuminating Linguistic Neighbourliness" Canberra Times 5 July p18 [review of Over There eds Kinsella and Pang; see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) p128; see also "Beyond Colloquial Prowess", this section].
84.
"Is Singapore’s Arts Scene Poised to Bloom?" Melissa Chia Reuters News 17 June.
85.
"Literary Escapades" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 8 June [on the last LifeStyle-Elephant & Coral Creative Writing Contest].
86.
"Local Dramas on Target" Adeline Chia Straits Times 1 Sept [response to the year’s Singapore Theatre Festival].
87.
"Local Films Get Novel Treatment" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 23 June [on the novelisation of three Singaporean films; see Fiction: Singapore: works by Ng, Toh and Yeo].
88.
"Making the Cut" Tara Tan Straits Times 29 May [on the recent emergence, in Singapore, of six new theatre groups, to compete with the more established ones].
89.
"OCBC Festival: Taking a Closer Look at Life in Singapore" Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop New York Times and International Herald Tribune 14 Aug.
90.
"Performing Poets" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 25 May [on the fifth year of Poetry Slam in Singapore].
91.
"Postcolonial Desire: Placing Singapore" Philip Holden Postcolonial Studies 11(3) pp345-361.
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"The Road People: Poetry and Urban (Im)Mobility in Singapore" Gwee Li Sui Asiatic 2(2) pp38-51 < http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/article/ Gweeli.pdf>.
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"Show Business Must Go On" Ben Munroe Business Times (Singapore) 24 Oct [how arts groups are coping with the economic slowdown: cf. "Give Us a Hand" above].
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"The Shows Must Go On" Mayo Martin Today 4 Nov p28 [the theatre scene in Singapore did not seem to be seriously affected by the recession].
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"Singapore Books Get Exposure Abroad" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 15 May [launching of poetry anthology in Perth (Australia) and selling of the rights for two Singapore novels to be published in Africa].
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"Singapore Eases Censorship of Arts, with Limits" Alex Kennedy Associated Press Newswires 24 Aug.
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"Singapore Plans Two New Literary Prizes" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 12 Dec [the National Book Development Council’s proposal to set up two more literary prizes].
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"Singapore’s Discomfort Zone" George Wehrfritz and Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Newsweek International 152(06) 11 Aug [discussion with four theatrical directors on the evolving role of theatre in exploring sensitive issues].
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"Watch this Space for Inspiration" Yong Shu Hoong Straits Times 16 Oct [on Singapore as an inspiration for its writers].
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"The Write List" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 2 Oct [on the Singapore Literature Prize shortlist].
101.
Awang Goneng "Terengganu State of Mind" Meera Murugesan Weekend Mail 5 Jan p16 [review of Growing up in Terengganu; see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) p142].
102.
Aw, Tash "From Chempaka, the Muslim Tree of Death, to Scarf-Wrapped Banana Plants: Postcolonial Representations of Gardening Images in Tash Aw’s The Harmony Silk Factory" Pauline T. Newton Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing 30(1) pp170-186.
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---"Worlds Apart with His Second Novel, Malaysian Writer Tash Aw Continues to Explore Identity in Times of Change in Asia" Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop South China Morning Post 6 Jan p7.
104.
Chauly, Bernice "Bernice Chauly: Her Love-Hate Conundrum with Malaysia" Prodita Sabarini Jakarta Post 9 Nov p4.
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Chuah Guat Eng "A Case of Mistaken Identities? Retelling Malaysia’s National Story" Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera Overcoming Passion ed Lim [see Criticism: General, Malaysia] 13-27.
106.
Ee Tiang Hong "The Meanings of Malacca: Identity and Exile in the Writings of Ee Tiang Hong, Shirley Lim and Simone Lazaroo" Dennis Haskell Asiatic 2(1) pp21-31 <http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/Archive/ articles/The%20Meanings%20of%20Malacca.pdf>
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Fernando, Lloyd "Lloyd Fernando: A Tribute" Mohammad A. Quayum Asiatic 2(1) pp1-9 <http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/Archive/articles/ Lloyd_Fernando.A_Tribute.pdf> [posthumous homage to Fernando 1926-2008].
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---"Lloyd Fernando’s Circle: An Interview with Marie Fernando, Wife of Lloyd Fernando" Pauline T. Newton Asiatic 2(2) pp101-110 <http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/article/Pauline.pdf>.
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---"The Other Within: The Malaysian Experience" Raihanah M. Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English ed Dunja M. Mohr xvii+341pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) pp193-204 [analysis of Fernando’s novels in the Malaysian context].
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---"Unpacking Nationalism: Reading Lloyd Fernando’s Green Is the Colour" Shakila Abdul Manan Exploring Space: Trends in Literature, Linguistics and Translation eds Shakila Abdul Manan and Lalita Sinha xiii+169pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle upon Tyne) pp141-164.
111.
Flint, Shamini Mahadevan "Crime Writer Bags 3-Book Publishing Deal" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 1 May.
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---"Shamini Flint: Writing for a Better World" Vennilla Rajaguru Jakarta Post 23 Oct p20.
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Huzir Sulaiman "Different Sides of the Straits" Mohammad A Quayum Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 7(1) <www.qlrs.com/interview. asp?id=601> [interview].
114.
---"Hot Punch with Atomic Jaya" Ong Siew Lee New Sunday Times 19 Oct p19 [review of Sunway University College’s production of the play Atomic Jaya].
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---"Time to Laugh at Ourselves" Subhadra Devan New Sunday Times 5 Oct p21 [preview of Sunway College’s production of Atomic Jaya].
116.
Kee Thuan Chye "Bloody, Funny but a Big Saggy" Adeline Chia Straits Times 9 Aug [review of Wild Rice’s production of The Swordfish, Then the Concubine in Singapore].
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---"A Decade-Old Dream Come True" Ben Munroe Business Times (Singapore) 8 Aug [preview of the Singapore production of The Swordfish, Then the Concubine].
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---"Dismantling Gendered Nationalism in Kee Thuan Chye’s We Could **** You, Mr. Birch" Susan Philip Asiatic 2(1) pp 83-96
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<http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/Archive/articles/Dismantling%20Gendered %20Nationalism.pdf>.
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---"History Replay" Tara Tan Straits Times 5 Aug 2008 [preview of The Swordfish, Then the Concubine].
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---"A Refreshingly Good Laugh" Mayo Martin Today 9 Aug p64 [review of The Swordfish, Then the Concubine].
122.
Lim, Shirley "‘Transformed by the Land’s Rolling Green’: Ecological Consciousness in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim" Agnes S. K. YeowTamkang Review: A Quarterly of Literary and Cultural Studies 39(1) pp41-65.
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---See also, Ee, this section.
124.
Loh, Vyvyane "Rethinking Torture’s Dark Chamber" Stephanie Athey Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 20 (March) pp13-21.
125.
Maniam, K. S. "‘Your Memories are Our Memories’: Remembering Culture as Race in Malaysia and K.S. Maniam’s Between Lives" David C. L. Lim Overcoming Passion ed Lim [see Criticism: General, Malaysia].
126.
Muhammad Haji Salleh "Visions of Eco-apocalypse in Selected Malaysian Poetry in English: Cecil Rajendra and Muhammad Haji Salleh" Agnes S. K. Yeow Foreign Literature Studies / Wai Guo Wen Xue Yan Jiu 30(5) pp30-42.
127.
Rajendra, Cecil see Muhammad Haji Salleh, this section.
128.
Salleh ben Joned Review of Adam’s Dream [see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) p126] Andrew Ng Asiatic 2(2) pp125-8 <http://asiatic. iiu.edu.my/article/Andrew.pdf>.
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---Review of Adam’s Dream Nur Sheena Baharudin Asiatic 2(2) pp131-3 <http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/article/Sheena.pdf>.
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Samarasan, Preeta "Author Preeta Samarasan Is ‘Obsessed’ with the Idea of a Malaysian Identity and Troubled Race Relations" Alister McMillan South China Morning Post 14 Dec p14.
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---"Coming of Age in Malaysia" Sadanand Dhume The Wall Street Journal Asia 20 Nov pW17 [see Fiction: Malaysia; review of Evening Is the Whole Day: subsequent entries for Samarasan below are all reviews of her debut novel].
132.
---"A Feeling of Belonging in Malaysia" Geeta Sharma-Jensen The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 28 Dec pE4.
133.
---"Evocative Debut Tale of Social Divisions, Family Dynamics" Shubha Singh Indo-Asian News Service 12 Sept.
134.
---"Maid in Malaysia" Karen Tay Sunday Star-Times 31 Aug p7.
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---"Malaysia on the Rebound" Kanika Batra Financial Express 16 Nov.
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---"Malaysia’s New Place in the Literary Sun" Salil Tripathi The Independent 13 June.
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---"More Tales of the Diaspora" Sholto Byrnes New Statesman (10 Nov) p137.
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---"Of Guilt, Grief and Growing Up" Sumana Mukherjee The Hindu 7 Sept p8.
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---"Oh, Such Drama" Fong Leong Ming New Straits Times 23 Aug p13.
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---"Preeta’s Poetic Prose" Subhadra Devan New Sunday Times 24 Aug p10.
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---"Putting Malaysia on the World Literary Map" Manik Mehta Malaysian Business 1 Oct p62.
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---"What Aasha Saw" Allegra Goodman New York Times 27 July p21.
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Shahriza Hussein "A Rich Legacy" James Hipkiss New Straits Times 12 April p10 [review of Legacy, see Fiction: Malaysia].
144.
de Silva, Mark Beau "Daughters of the Bride" Adeline Chia Straits Times 3 July [preview of performance of de Silva’s Mama’s Wedding in Singapore].
145.
---"A Heavy-Handed, Lacklustre Affair" Josephine Chew Business Times (Singapore) 11 July [review of Mama’s Wedding in Singapore].
146.
---"Snapshots of a Compulsive Writer" Frankie Chee Straits Times 30 June [interview].
147.
---"Wedding Bubbly on the Surface" Adeline Chia Straits Times 7 July [review of Mama’s Wedding].
148.
Ooi Yang-May "A Passion for Other Lovers: Rewriting the ‘Other’ in Ooi Yang-May’s Fictionalisation of Multiethnic Malaysia" Overcoming Passion ed Lim [see Criticism: General, Malaysia] 167-182.
149.
Solomon, Anushka Anastasia "Confessions of a Malaysian Starbucks Barista" Anushka Anastasia Solomon Denver Post 13 April pD.2.
150.
---"Essay in Hearts of Americans, A True Home" Anushka Anastasia Solomon Denver Post 23 Dec pD.2.
151.
Tan Twan Eng "Book Looks at the Many Forms of Love and Duty" Mary Foster Associated Press Newswires 20 May [this and other entries for Tan are reviews of his novel The Gift of Rain; see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) p128].
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---"Casualties of War" Wendy Law-Yone Washington Post 21 Dec pT06.
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---"Caught in the Middle" Tom Horgen Star-Tribune 4 May p14F.
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---"Clashing Cultures, Shifting Allegiances" Elizabeth Willse Star-Ledger 8 June p5.
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---"‘Gift of Rain’ Bestows Lessons during Times of Love and War" Elysa Gardner USA Today 3 June pD.3.
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---"The Gift of Rain" Ronny Noor World Literature Today 82(6) p59.
157.
---"Old-Fashioned Story of Loyalty is a Shining, Satisfying Read" Donna Marchetti The Plain Dealer pG4.
158.
---"Sprawling Epic Pushes Bounds of Believability" Heidi Maier Sun Herald 3 Feb p61.
159.
---"Strong Debut Suffers from Too Much Subtlety" Elaine Kalman Naves Edmonton Journal 17 Aug pB8.
160.
Tei Chiew-Siah "Delicious Page-Turner" Subhadra Devan New Sunday Times 21 Sept p16 [interview, and review of Little Hut of Leaping Fishes, see Fiction: Malaysia].
161.
---"Family Tei" Susan Mansfield The Scotsman 16 Aug p4 [interview and review of Little Hut].
162.
---"A Future Shaped by the Past: Chiew-Siah Tei Talks to Angela Bennie" Sydney Morning Herald 5 July p37.
163.
---"Little Hut of Leaping Fishes" Kimberly Chou South China Morning Post 3 Aug p6 [review of Little Hut].
164.
---"A New Novel Searches for Home" Yanapon Musiket Bangkok Post 12 July pO3 [review of Little Hut].
165.
---"Plum Blossom Village" Alasdair Gray Times Literary Supplement 4 July p19.
166.
Thomas, Matthew "Spinning Yarns with Skill" Fong Leong Ming New Straits Times 18 Oct p15 [review of Tales from the Court and Other Stories, see Fiction: Malaysia].
167.
Zizi Azah Abdul Majid "In Conflict over Ending" Hong Xinyi Straits Times 29 Jan [review of the Singapore production of her play Above Us Only Sky].
168.
---"Reaching for the Sky" Hong Xinyi Straits Times 22 Jan [preview of Above Us Only Sky].
169.
Alfian Sa’at "All Set for Russian Invasion" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 10 April [performance of one of Alfian’s musical plays in Russia].
170.
---"Smart, with Plenty of Heart" Adeline Chia Straits Times 1 Dec [review of Alfian’s modern adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs].
171.
---"Snow Off-White" Tara Tan Straits Times 20 Nov [preview of Alfian’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs].
172.
---"A Tale Worth Telling: A Maverick Playwright on Writing His First Play for Children" Mayo Martin Today 21 Nov p58.
173.
Baratham, Gopal "Burning Criticism" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 7 Sept [on Baratham’s A Candle or the Sun (1991)].
174.
Cheong, Colin "The Anxiety of Influences: Dis-Locating Authority, Culture and Identity in the Novels of Colin Cheong" Robbie B. H. Goh China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story ed Robert A. Lee 350pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) pp259-278 [revised version of an article first published in 2007; see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) p137].
175.
Chong, Amanda Wei Zhen "Teen Poet Wins Literature Prize" Ho Ai Li Straits Times 22 April.
176.
Chong Tze Chien "The End Is Neigh" Adeline Chia Straits Times 3 Nov [on the production of Chong’s play Flare with Natalie Hennedige as director].
177.
---"Rein in Your Horses" Adeline Chia Straits Times 8 Nov [review of Flare].
178.
Goh Poh Seng "What Dreams May Come" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 6 Jan [on Goh’s If We Dream Too Long (1972)].
179.
Goh Sin Tub "Wise Lessons to Live By" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 2 Nov [on Goh’s Honour and Other Stories (1986)].
180.
Hennedige, Natalie "Nightmarish World of Sports" Adeline Chia Straits Times 21 June [review of performance of Hennedige’s Temple].
181.
---"Temple with No Structure" Cheah Ui-Hoon Business Times (Singapore) 21 June [review of Temple].
182.
Joshi, Pranav S. "Gaps between the Bars" Adeline Koh Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 7(3) <www.qlrs.com/critique.asp?id=624> [review of Joshi’s Behind a Cultural Cage (2007)].
183.
Koh Buck Song "The Changing Face of Home" Business Times 17 Oct [review of Koh’s and Ong Kim Seng’s Heartlands, see Poetry: Singapore].
184.
Kwek, Ken "Check Mates" Adeline Chia Straits Times 22 Dec [review of performance of Do Not Disturb - Late Checkout Please].
185.
---"Doomsday Singapore" Adeline Chia Straits Times 18 Aug [preview of Apocalypse: Live!].
186.
---"Re-Building a Nation amid Dictatorship and Anarchy" Ben Munroe Business Times (Singapore) 22 [preview of Apocalypse: Live!].
187.
---"Slim Pickings in Rubble" Adeline Chia Straits Times 23 Aug [review of Apocalypse: Live!].
188.
Lazaroo, Simone see Ee, Individual Authors: Malaysia.
189.
Lee, Johann S. "Coming Home for Act 2" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 10 Feb [interview]
190.
---"Hot off the Press" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 10 Feb [review of To Know Where I’m Coming From, see Fiction: Singapore].
191.
Lee, Laremy "Comic Romp" John Lui Straits Times 22 Aug [review of staging of Lee’s Full Tank and Radio Silence and Julian Wong’s Botak Boys.
192.
Lee Tzu Pheng "Soul Searcher" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 6 July [on Lee’s Prospect of a Drowning (1980)].
193.
Lim, Catherine "All You Need Is Love" Today 13 Feb p32 [interview]. ---"A Big Leap of Faith" Christopher Toh Today 27 Feb p38 [review of movie based on Lim’s novella, Leap Years].
194.
---"Daily Despair" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 3 Aug [on Lim’s Little Ironies (1978)].
195.
---"Singapore Materially Rich, Spiritually Poor: Author" Luqman Suratman Agence France Presse 18 April [interview, mainly on political matters].
196.
Lim, Christine Suchen "Mining the Archive: Historical Fiction, Counter-Modernities, and Suchen Christine Lim’s A Bit of Earth" Angelia Poon Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(3) pp25-42.
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---"My Bit of Earth in the Sun" Christine Suchen Lim Straits Times 10 Aug [the author’s views on Singapore].
198.
---"‘Old Marley Married a Chinese Writer’: Towards an Aesthetics of Confident Intertextuality" Tamara S. Wagner Asiatic 2(2) pp52-64 <http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/article/Tamara.pdf>.
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---"Painting the Murky Past" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 4 May [on Lim’s Fistful of Colours (1992)].
200.
Lim, Jonathan "Bigger Chestnuts with a Bang" Adeline Chia Straits Times 23 Jan [interview centring on Lim’s yearly satirical production, whose 2008 version was titled Chesty Nutty Bang Bang: The Hairspray of the Phoenix].
201.
---"Funny but Too Long" Hong Xinyi Straits Times 29 Jan [review of Chesty Nutty Bang Bang].
202.
Nambiar, Pratap "Dollars & Literary Sense" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 21 Sept [on the joint launch of Nambiar’s Straight from the Heart and Toh Hsien Min’s Means to an End; see Poetry: Singapore].
203.
---"Straight Shooter" Straits Times 21 Sept [review of Straight from the Heart].
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Ng Swee San "Too Tame to Enchant" Adeline Chia Straits Times 21 April [review of the production of Ng’s The Enchantment of Sangkuriang [adaptation of an Indonesian folk tale].
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Ng Yi-Sheng "Dying, Debt-Ridden Singapore Founder" Adeline Chia Straits Times 7 Aug [preview of Ng’s play The Last Temptation of Stamford Raffles, which is described as a surreal biography of Raffles].
206.
---"Forgotten Shrine Revisited" Adeline Chia Straits Times 25 Aug [preview of Ng’s play Reservoir, which revolves around a Shinto shrine in Singapore’s MacRitchie Reservoir].
207.
---"Heartland of Myths and Alter Egos" Aaron Lee Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 7(1) <www.qlrs.com/critique.asp?id=600> [review of Ng’s Last Boy (2006), see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 42(4) p115].
208.
---"Last Boy Scores Top Honours for Poet" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 4 Dec [Ng wins the Singapore Literature Prize with his volume of poetry, Last Boy (2006)].
209.
---"Raffles Ruffled" Adeline Chia Straits Times 18 Aug [review of Last Temptation].
210.
---"Shrine a Light" Adeline Chia Straits Times 30 Aug [review of Reservoir].
211.
---"A Shrining Example" Mayo Martin Today 30 Aug p50 [review of Reservoir].
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---"Take a Step Back in Time with This Show" Ben Munroe Business Times (Singapore) 29 Aug [on the preparations for Ng’s Reservoir].
213.
---"Yi-Sheng’s Arts Grand Slam" Koh Hui Theng MyPaper 31 Dec pA16 [on winning the Singapore Literature Prize and other prizes].
214.
Ong Keng Sen "In the Lofty Realm of Singapore Theatre, Few Would Contest the Fact That the..." Today 3 June p26 [interview].
215.
Poon, Wena "Migratory Patterns" Neel Chowdhury Time International (Asia Ed.) 171(16) 28 April p62. [review of Poon’s Lions in Winter; see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) p128].
216.
---"A Singaporean Abroad" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 17 Feb [interview]
217.
---"A Singaporean Diaspora?" Eddie Tay Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 7(2) <www.qlrs.com/critique.asp?id=620> [review of Lions in Winter]
218.
---"Words Come Easy to Wena Poon" Intan Maizura Ahmad Kamal New Sunday Times 16 March p10 [interview and overview of Poon’s work].
219.
Sharma, Haresh "Eclipse of 1947" Today 18 Jan p64 [review of Sharma’s Eclipse, a monodrama on the partition of India and Pakistan; this is a lengthier revised version of the play first performed in Edinburgh in 2007; see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) pp125, 140].
220.
---"Family in Detention" Subhadra Devan New Sunday Times 30 Nov p23 [on the sell-out performances in Kuala Lumpur of Sharma’s Gemuk Girls, a politically sensitive play in English and Malay about detention without trial in Singapore].
221.
---"Girls Do Heavy Duty" Tara Tan Straits Times 23 Oct [background to Sharma’s Gemuk Girls].
222.
---"Gutsy Girls" Adeline Chia Straits Times 4 Nov [review of Gemuk Girls].
223.
---"A Human Face Put to Weighty Political Issues" Cheah Ui-Hoon Business Times (Singapore) 31 Oct [review of Gemuk Girls].
224.
---"Not Everything Is Black and White" Subhadra Devan New Sunday Times 4 May p19 [preview of the staging of Sharma’s Good People in Kuala Lumpur].
225.
---"Plus-size Politics" Mayo Martin Today 23 Oct p46 [preview of Gemuk Girls].
226.
---Review of David Birch’s Haresh Sharma, the Cultural Politics of Playwriting in Contemporary Singapore [see Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43(4) pp125, 140] William Peterson Australasian Drama Studies (53) pp240-4.
227.
---"Thoughtful Tales on Humanity" Adeline Chia Straits Times 25 March [review of a performance of Sharma’s Frozen Angels, a "work-inprogress" about stem cell research].
228.
Shiau, Daren Heartland: The Student’s Handbook Susan Amy 62pp S $5.90.
229.
Tan Hwee Hwee "Out of Place" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 1 June [on Tan’s Foreign Bodies (1997)].
230.
---"Spirituality Is Her New Calling" Adeline Chia Straits Times 1 June [on Tan’s new vocation as a spiritual counsellor].
231.
---"Writing ‘the Global’ in Singapore Anglophone Fiction: Language, Vision and resonance in Hwee Hwee Tan’s Fiction’, Robbie B. H. Goh China Fictions-English Language: Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story ed Robert A. Lee 350pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) pp239-257.
232.
Thumboo, Edwin Edwin Thumboo: Creating a Nation through Poetry (Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature: Vol 7) Peter Nazareth pp238 Ethos Books (Singapore) S $30.
233.
Tay, Jean "Boom Not Quite Shaking the Room" Mayo Martin Today 22 Sept p26 [review of performance of Tay’s play, Boom].
234.
---"When Boom Means Bane" Adeline Chia Straits Times 4 Sept [preview of Tay’s play, Boom].
235.
---"When Realty Bites" Tara Tan Straits Times 23 Sept [review of Boom].
236.
---"Writer’s Block Blues" Adeline Chia Straits Times 8 Sept [preview of Boom and interview with Tay].
237.
Tay, Simon "Citizen Simon" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 22 Dec [interview].
238.
---"Count Your Blessings" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 21 Dec [review of an advance copy of Tay’s City of Small Blessings].
239.
---"Going Solo" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 7 Dec [on Tay’s Stand Alone (1991)].
240.
Tessensohn, Denyse "Local Short Story Made into Film" Denyse Tessensohn New Paper 25 Jan [on the making of a television movie from her short story "Kumari"].
241.
Thumboo, Edwin Edwin Thumboo: Creating a Nation through Poetry (Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature: Vol 7) Peter Nazareth pp238 Ethos Books (Singapore) S $30.
242.
---"Formative Years" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 2 March [on Thumboo’s Gods Can Die [1977]).
243.
---"Poet in Motion" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 11 Aug [interview].
244.
---"The Way We Were" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 14 Sept [review of Still Travelling; see Poetry: Singapore].
245.
---"The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape" Jini Kim Watson Contemporary Literature 49(4) 683-799 [also on the poetry of Arthur Yap].
246.
Toh Hsien Min "Lost in Transition" Ng Yi-Sheng Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 7(4) <www.qlrs.com/critique.asp?id=655> [overview of Toh’s poetic oeuvre].
247.
---"Numbers Man Has Way with Words" Straits Times 21 Sept [interview].
248.
---"On Being Reviewed" Toh Hsien Min Quarterly Literary Review Singapore 7(4) <www.qlrs.com/editorial.asp?id=658> [response to Ng’s "Lost in Transition" (above)].
249.
---"S’pore Poet’s Relish for Words and Figures" Ng Wei Chian MyPaper 7 Oct pA18.
250.
---"Urban Talk" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 19 Oct [review of Means to an End, see Poetry: Singapore].
251.
---See also, Nambiar "Dollars & Literary Sense", this section.
252.
Wong, Julian see Lee, Laremy, this section.
253.
Yap, Arthur "Poet of the Interior" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 6 April [on Yap’s Only Lines (1971)].
254.
---See also, Thumboo "The Way Ahead", this section.
255.
Yeo, Robert "Hanky Panky, Singapore-Style" Stephanie Yap Straits Times 5 Oct [on Yeo’s The Adventures of Holden Heng (1986)].
256.
Yew, Chay "Re-Configuring Cultural Memory in Chay Yew’s Wonderland and M. J. Kang’s Blessings" Caroline De Wagter Signatures of the Past: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Anglophone North American Drama eds Marc Maufort and Caroline De Wagter 312pp Peter Lang (Brussels) pp273-290.
257.
---"Vivien out of the Shadows" Adeline Chia Straits Times 11 Aug [interview and preview of Vivien & The Shadows, which would be staged in Singapore in 2009].
258.
Fong Chong Pik Fong Chong Pik: The Memoirs of a Malayan Communist Revolutionary 286pp Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (Petaling Jaya) RM38.
259.
Syed Husin Ali Two Faces: Detention without Trial 169pp Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (Petaling Jaya) RM20.
260.
Tan, Terry Stir-fried and Not Shaken: Nostalgic Trip down Singapore’s Memory Lane 255pp Monsoon Books (Singapore) S $22.50.
261.
Oehlers, Jock That’s How It Goes: Autobiography of a Singapore Eurasian xiv+235pp Select Publishing (Singapore) S $22.
262.
Wong Seng Chow Rice Wine & Dancing Girls 184pp Monsoon Books (Singapore).S $20.50.